I am looking at using a honeypot for a research project - need to put something "safe" to attract packets, scans etc. I was thinking of a heavily stripped gentoo vm (in virtualbox) running honeyd, but the ebuild for honeyd is looking like its getting quite old - according to the honeyd website its 2007-05-27.
Is there an alternative? I need to dump raw packets (pcap format) from an unprotected network connection but dont want to risk getting actually "hacked". BillK
